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Slagpit:
Why would we expect or even want an all-X TMBR to do well? You're paying lots of military maintenance but refusing to take proper advantage of your military power out of stubbornness.
Military power? With more of my networth in troops and tanks than in jets and turrets, and 25% of my military on the market?
They have networth, but they don't have the ability to bounce retals, and the networth keeps them from being able to properly bottomfeed.
I'm surprised that the best all-explore commie indy finish is just 102m. My commie indy a couple of sets ago got 94m networth, after getting land from PDM, but it also spent a week and a half as untagged, and kept over 1 million spies for over half the set. I guess only like 2 people have ever tried all-explore commie indy if 102 is the best they could do.
And Enshula - if more of my military had sold at $400/nw like Chewi had recommended as my end of set sale price, I would have made 111m networth. Less than 1/4th of the 4 billion worth of goods I put up at the end of the set actually sold. I also did a lot of screwy stuff, like stopping exploring at under 18k acres, and at one point dropping over 20m networth in 2 days, and I was cautious in military pricing early when I should have been aggressive, then a few weeks in I started being aggressive when military prices started falling, and many other mistakes that cost me billions.
The upside to TMBR is no greater than the upside to an all-explore farmer or casher. If someone can run an all-explore TMBR to 150+ million networth, they'll prove me wrong. It is a more difficult strategy, but there is no incentive to try a more difficult strategy that has no greater upside than a ridiculously simple all-explore casher or all-explore farmer strategy.
But back to the topic of the thread, combining all the booms into one makes sense.